I'm attempting to install this clean. No windows whatsoever. I have tried many different bios settings and i'm having no luck at all. Hardware: 3480ct port...
MaryJane, I'm having similar problems to what you went through. Were you able to resolve them? I posted in msg#1761 a story similar to what I've read here....
Please see my new page http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mconnors/portege/Portege_RH8.0.html I submitted this to linux-laptops through the submit page about a...
Martin Connors
martinc@...
Apr 9, 2003 2:25 am
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... I'd say it's a RH problem (also I did not try RH since version 6.2; I've successfully installed SuSE 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 to my 3110CT from the pcmcia cd...
... I've recently installed rh8.0 on a portege 3110ct. It boots straight off the CD, the only thing you have to do is press "c" during startup. The manual...
William, The Redhat cd boots my machine, I don't need to press ctrl-c or c during boot. Redhat will prompt me for the installation medium and i say cd-rom, it...
I will be out of the office starting 07/04/2003 and will not return until 05/05/2003. I am working offsite during April, and will not be back in the office...
ian.hensman@...
Apr 9, 2003 2:37 pm
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Hi William, I found your site very helpful during my ordeal but did not contact you at the time as my plaintive cries might have made me look pitiful. As I...
Martin Connors
martinc@...
Apr 9, 2003 3:23 pm
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It's starting to sound like I need to consider a network install. Unfortunately, i do not have a linux server. Any suggestions? ... contact you ... I ... ...
... Grab that old DOS bootdisk on the bottom of a drawer and hope to find some DOS drivers for your PCMCIA drive. (I was surprised to see that there were some...
Chris, thanx for the advice. I'm still having no luck even with windows. I've tried a bunch of drivers for the port nw24xcd pcmcia cd-rom. Often when the...
... Ironically there are currently problems with that (free) isp and the site doesn't seem to be available :-(((( ... I was using the standard drive (branded...
I have a toshiba portege 3480ct that I bought off ebay and I've spent two weeks trying to make the driver work for the PORT cd-rom that came with it. I'm...
I've come a little further. I setup an FTP client on WinXP and I'm using an ethernet card to download netstg2.img. It downloads the 10 Mb file from my hard...
... This problem does seem to come up rather frequently. I haven't had it myself, but I wonder if a possible solution would be to boot from a floppy drive (if ...
... mjoren> I have a toshiba portege 3480ct that I bought off ebay and I've mjoren> spent two weeks trying to make the driver work for the PORT cd-rom mjoren>...
It's odd how everyone seems to have different experiences with what sounds like the same hardware. Anyway, my installation saga finally ended. I setup an ftp...
Has anyone got PCMCIA cards working for the Portege 3020CT under Red Hat? I want to install Red Hat 9.0 over the network but it cannot find my 3com 3C589D...
After a long drawn out saga, I can now post as a newbie user instead of a lost installer. I have a P3 600 with 64 mb's of ram running redhat 9. I'm paging...
you'll need to resize your C: drive. You can copy the iso's to the c: drive and install from them, but linux you'll need some unpartitioned space for ext3 and...
yeah, you really need at least 128 MB of ram to run a redhat 9. you can also improve performance by turning off services that you don't use. to do so run the...
I am using Fluxbox and IceWM on my 7020CT with 128meg of ram. Both are much faster than KDE. Ice is probably more familiar looking, but Flux is fastest, and...
Chuck Graf
cfgraf@...
Apr 17, 2003 3:10 pm
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What type of resource utilization do you see when your running your desktop without anything else going? How much ram is used? ... are much ... fastest, ... ...
Hi all: I need advise to perform a dual boot XP-Linux install on my portege 2000. I do not know how to go about partitioning the HD, I think once I am past...
I've installed gentoo, mandrake 8 and redhat 8 and 9 on the portege 2000 and I think that Redhat 9 is the easiest to get working with the portege 2000. Wifi...
No matter what drivers I load, I receive this in /var/log/messages Apr 28 22:48:35 localhost cardmgr[1608]: unsupported card in socket 1 Apr 28 22:48:35...
... I don't know if you've got this working yet, but my experiences with wireless are at: http://www.wmc.care4free.net/linux-wireless.html (for DLINK...